{"id":144976,"date":"2025-09-15T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144976\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:05:07","slug":"afl-chair-contender-jeff-browne-has-andrew-pridham-in-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144976\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL chair contender Jeff Browne has Andrew Pridham in background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fracas over who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/sport\/goyder-to-stand-down-as-afl-chairman-20250905-p5msu3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">replaces<\/a> Richard Goyder as chair of the AFL Commission has descended from fodder for footy gossips at half-time to a full-blown farce.<\/p>\n<p>Former Collingwood boss and media lawyer Jeff Browne was the frontrunner. Then it was ex-Western Bulldogs boss and class action lawyer Peter Gordon. But former Geelong president Craig Drummond and ex-Essendon director Peter Allen (a late entrant) are still in with a chance. If this is the still the state of play by Sunday, there will be more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rear-window\/bolter-emerges-as-favourite-to-run-the-afl-20250908-p5mt8h\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contenders for chair<\/a> than there are teams left in the season!<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fracas over who replaces Richard Goyder as chair of the AFL Commission has descended from fodder for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-144976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}